HP decided to retire the EDS brand today. With this comes an end to a long standing IT services brand that started way back in 1962 (much before the IT services was viewed as an industry segment, let alone a huge industry)
With Dell acquiring Perot Systems on September 21, 2009 the IT services saw further consolidation, with Accenture, CSC and Cap Gemini remaining as the IT Services majors (along with IBM and HP) and the Indian IT Services biggies TCS, Infosys & Wipro.
Many younger IT professionals may not know that EDS started off as a wing of General Motors!
EDS has a large presence thru Jerry Rao founded MPhasis; it became an EDS Company after being acquired by EDS a couple of years back; now it becomes an HP Company!
Interesting times indeed!!
Tags: EDS, EDS brand is no more, HP
October 4, 2009 at 10:16 am
In the Tech world, the hardware “box” manufacturers , who were thought to be squeezed between the chip makers (Intel) and the software folks (Msft, Oracle, etc) are getting their own back, with EDS (acquired by HP) and Perot (acquired by Dell), the hardware players are clearly moving into the “higher value added” services space… interesting dynamic for the industry…